Well hello to you. You’ve managed to navigate the endless streams of Internet nonsense and found yourself here. I feel I should warn you about something. If you’re not prepared for intrigue, hilarity, heartbreak and hopefully the restoration of your faith in humanity, then I feel I should attempt to open you up to such things. […]
Read more "“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like”"I love having a good memory. It allows me to remember a fonder time before work, and adult life took over and I had to start thinking about other things than queuing up at midnight to purchase the next Harry Potter book. I very clearly remember being with my dear Mum, eagerly anticipating the next […]
Read more "“There will be a time when we must choose between what is easy, and what is right.”"Something I’ve discovered in my 22 years of life thus far, is that humans are deeply emotional people, and yet emotionally fickle. We can feel things to such a level that they bring us immense joy, or uncontrollable fury, and we could feel each of them within a short space of time. I find it […]
Read more "“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I?”"As anyone who knows me will testify, I talk about Serenity and Firefly more than I talk about most other things. I mean, it seems impossible not to love a rogue bunch of space cowboys and their adventures on the edge of the big black. Following the adventures of Captain Malcolm Reynolds, also affectionately referred to as […]
Read more "“I aim to misbehave.”"I wonder if you are anything like me, and have that one film that you know you can always go back to when you want to watch something. Unfortunately for me, that one that I can always rely on usually becomes about five or six. Classics like The Shawshank Redemption, Gladiator, or any of The […]
Read more "“Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them.”"As a lover of literature, I can very easily find myself lost in a good book and there are fewer greater writers of lovable fiction than Roald Dahl. The Witches is a fantastic book, and holds wisdom for readers of all ages. As 2016 begins to draw to a close, I thought I’d reflect on […]
Read more "“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”"It’s been a long time since I posted anything on here, and for that I can only apologise. University kicked off and I’ve been neck deep in writing assignments, homework and newspaper deadlines. So I’ve decided to transform this blog into something more. From here on out, it won’t be simply blog posts I’ll be […]
Read more "A Symphony of Solidarity"I’m sure it will come as no surprise to any of you to learn that when I haven’t written a blog post in a while, and am struggling for inspiration, I turn back to Lord of the Rings. Tolkien is my literary hero, and Middle-Earth is my happy place when I need to escape for […]
Read more "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."Well, here we are again. Another summer has come and gone, and I find myself back in Portsmouth ready to begin my second year of study. I’ve moved into my house, set up my Xbox, found that there are two Pokestops by my house, caught up on Great British Bake Off and everything is ready […]
Read more "Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear."As I’m writing this, I’m halfway through a very busy summer of youth work where I’m away on residential camps for five weeks, and working on social action projects for another two. It’s incredibly busy, but I absolutely love it and I’d rather do this than spend my summer doing nothing and being lazy around the house. I’ve […]
Read more "Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."This morning, this week and indeed the past few months have been somewhat stagnant for me. Not in terms of things to do, I’ve been plenty busy. Faith ventures to France and Munich, visiting friends, youth sessions, Euro 2016 football and having the house to myself which means being able to sway gently around the living […]
Read more "You are more than what you have become"
